DEBKAfile Exclusive: On Monday, Dec. 1, Hizballah activists began organizing groups of “demonstrators” in the Shiite villages of South Lebanon for mob assaults from behind the Lebanese border on the IDF teams excavating tunnels. They plan to take a leaf from the violent disturbances Hamas and Islamic Jihad staged against Israeli troops from the Gaza border for months. Hizballah strategists estimate that thousands of Shiite men, women and children can be mobilized to harass the Israeli soldiers unearthing its tunnels. By turning up at different points, they would seriously hamper the Israeli operation.
Since the IDF keeps to the Israeli side of the Lebanese border, these groups would at first be ordered to stay at least 20 meters from the soldiers’ excavation sites. Our exclusive sources add that Hizballah obtained a Lebanese army guarantee to secure the Shiite riots. Preparations appear to be in progress for the first outbreak to occur around the village of Meiss ej-Jabal in the Marj Ayoun district opposite Israeli Zar’it. This patch was chosen as the starting point for the crowd assault on Israeli troops because there is no fence or wall blocking access between Lebanon and Israel. This first pilot “demonstration” will be staged to test results and gauge Israel’s response. If the stratagem works for Hizballah, it will be expanded to other parts of the border.
A close watch is being kept on the Gaza Strip in case the Palestinian terrorists, Hamas and Islamic Jihad, which are closely aligned with Hizballah, decide to go back to their former full-scale rampages against Israeli troops as a “second front.” In the last few weeks, they were persuaded to slacken the violence by the intake of Qatari dollars.

If Lebanese Shiites approach the Israeli border, it will be the job of UNIFIL to verify that each and every one of them are not members of Hezbollah in order to comply with the requirements of UNSC resolution 1701. Let’s see if UNIFIL actually does their job.

This is similar to how during 2006, Hezbollah militants used to run into these Shiite Lebanese villages for cover when being chased by the IDF. There, they would remove their uniforms and blend in with the population that would give them cover. Then when the IDF approached these villages, they were greeted by civilian mobs so that they could not enter and the Hezbollah militants disappeared in them. These villages currently serve as armed Hezbollah bases in disguise. At some point, these may have to be destroyed.

Time to clean the Lebanese Cancer (Hizbulla) If only the IDF would go in full force and cleanup the mess then The Lebanese Gov. minus (The Iran influence) could start a peace talk with Israel on opening the borders. Dream that my become a reality!

Ha ha ha
You’ve lost thousands of fighters over the last 12 years and the spider’s web is still there, stronger then ever. Just wait a few more years until Israel starts exporting the gas you didn’t even know was there in the ocean to be had, they’ll be raking in billions in cold hard cash while Lebanon can’t even get a conditional loan.

What a mess! Just imagine if the IDF takes the measures needed to stop the problem the rest of the world condemns the IDF. America is encountering what it is like to see the same kind of inequality. The Democrats continually break the rules and yet hold the Republicans to a higher standard. The insanity continues.

The IDF will be the ones having a picnic on the lebanon beach.
If they were real Europeans they would have completely destroyed their enemies, not like this kind of hesitation.
So far things didn’t go so well for the Arab supremacy peddlers.
Happy south “lebanon” Nakba

Yeah mofo!
You describe your sniveling arab brethren perfectly.
They stole land with the canniving brits and French and surrender and retreat.
They cry uncle Rouhani boo f’n hoo…those pesky yids.
It’s you feckers who are getting the welfare cheques…from the US, EU Iran and now Qatar.
You are just sponging POS’s who cry victim all the time and whose contribution to the world is the suicide vest.
May Allah grind you into putrid dust!!

@Weaker than a Spider’s Web
seems you like the sound of your own voice. u like to believe your fantasy and the reality is that ur brothers have tried for more than 70 years to win a war against Israel. Ur people hide behind women and children and the Hizbollah which has the largest army among all the Arab nations is now planning to do it again, to hide in tunnels and send women and children to confront the IDF. disgraceful… Nasrallah has a big mouth coward.

One crowd control methodology going back a half-century is the extremely high decibel noise generator, banks of cast aluminum bass speakers on trailers. “Noise” can be Tesla coil audible source, or maybe a scratchy Sousa March recording from 100 years ago? These are effective over a 1/4 mile and would require IDF personnel to back off when in use. Drones would surveil while personnel are pulled back.

It seems there are a number of non-lethal methods to discourage mobs.. swine manure in plastic bags dropped from blimps?

I agree with you and I have suggested this many times to the IDF and Knesset members. There are fog horns and other devices that ships use at sea to warn other vessels. These horns can be heard for miles away and can be adjusted for this use. The sound they make is so powerful that human beings cannot withstand the sound even with ear protection on. I suggest that Israel uses them to force the crowds to disperse ASAP.